My wife grew up on a dairy farm. When she left home she was done. She has horses yet but has no interest in anything with my beef cows, field work, or heaven forbid the 'm' word, milking.
Our kids don't know her as a dairy farm girl, that was up until her mom got hurt and was in surgery.
Our boys(11 and 13 at the time) and her went to the farm to start chores. I was coming right after work to milk. She said the look on their faces was priceless, when after 15 yrs of not being in the dairy barn she walked in, set up the milk room, then started feeding cows. She was in full on commander in chief mode when I arrived. She had started milking and had the boys set about doing other chores. I just stood in the alley laughing as she was standing between two cows telling the boys what to feed and where and how much. When she saw me, she said, "what? did you think I forgot how to milk a cow?"
My oldest boy came in the barn and asked me how the heck does mom know what she is doing. None of it surprised me, but she sure won some respect points from all her boys that day.
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